14 Nov 2008 at 8:12am A Turkish author who writes in his native language, Orhan Pamuk is the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been compared to Borges, Nabokov and DeLillo. His best-known (best-selling) novel is reminiscent of The Name of the Rose ...
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5 Nov 2008 at 5:55pm Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically. Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings. "Appaloosa" Western Drawl. ***. R. In the late 1880s, the anxious aldermen of Appaloosa, NM, require ...
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3 Nov 2008 at 5:57pm is sheer stupidity. It?s a little early to call it a phenomenon or a syndrome or even a drift, but when I admit that I hate travel, people seem slower to write me off as an listless, incurious slug. With more conversation, I can usually bring them ...
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31 Oct 2008 at 7:58pm Drawing Power! with Michael Moodoo, Vol. 4: Safari Animal Drawing . DVD. 50 min. Moodoo Prods . 2008. ISBN 978-0-9762454-7-6 . $29.99. K-Gr 6? Artist Michael Moodoo (Michael Dowell), a former elementary school art teacher, offers budding young ...
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13 Oct 2008 at 7:58pm Opening scene: A teenager's bedroom. Walls plastered with posters for cult bands. The soundtrack plays a cut from an equally of-the-moment musician. The credits roll as if someone doodled them in a spiral notebook, in a jittery, animated font. The ...
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9 Oct 2008 at 2:45am With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned ...
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8 Oct 2008 at 7:57pm It seems like only a few glandular cases are obsessed with the fact that Barack Obama knows Bill Ayers, the vintage '60s "revolutionary" and former mad bomber, with everyone else including the New York Post dismissing the charge as a low blow. But ...
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